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She was electrifying. It was like she was channeling Bessie Smith or something.


Janis Joplin

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CLIVE DAVIS I remember the first time somebody played me Janis Joplin. My friend Donna put on Janis Joplin, and ...
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS ...to be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's w...
JANIS JOPLIN Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know ...
WADADA LEO SMITH I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.
BRYAN WHITE I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of h...
MICHAEL WADLEIGH I just loved Amy Winehouse. I would rather have managed her than anybody in the world. To me, it was...
JERRY HELLER The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high ...
PATTI SMITH I couldn't stand Janis Joplin's voice... she was just a screaming little loudmouthed chick.
ARTHUR LEE My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne W...
CLIVE DAVIS I felt like I was gonna cry or something. She was our best friend here.
MARIA MARTINEZ I’m getting the feeling that you two don’t like me. - Kristy
MATTHEW LEETH If she had something she thought someone else would like, it was theirs.
LARRY WEIMAN I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Bill...
BEA ARTHUR America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.
MAURICE GIBB Oh, she is pretty. She was like Miss Houston or something. Pity, I have to murder her now.
LARRY CORREIA Mel was really upset after that game [Saturday], feeling like she didn't leave it all out there. I k...
ANN STROTHER I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken ...
PATTI SMITH When Friedan came to Smith in the fall of 1938 from a provincial town in Illinois, she was not very ...
DANIEL HOROWITZ Thanks, but no thanks. I need my makeup honey. - Carol
MATTHEW LEETH Leadership is something I was born with.
CARMELO ANTHONY I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
EDDIE MONEY She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she tho...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD She was abusive to him [the elder Marshall]. She was cruel to him, Anna Nicole Smith is not the brig...
DAVID MARGULIES People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Go...
JEFF BUCKLEY Kate could feel a strange heat along the back of her neck, something she hadn't felt in a while. It ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don&...
LEANN RIMES The younger Janis was a painter, a drawer. She was a very serious art student for a number of years....
LAURA JOPLIN It seemed like she was always away because even when she was home she seemed preoccupied.
SHANNAN APRILE I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice.
BRITTANY HOWARD Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice;...
RAINBOW ROWELL I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I neve...
STEVIE NICKS She was very dependable. Service has been something she was good at.
CLAUDIA STUART She was exactly like who she said she was ... except the picture. She has very curly hair, but it wa...
KEITH MEYERSON I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
EDDIE MONEY Our evidence shows (Corrine Smith) was not strapped in, ... There was a car seat in the car, but she...
TOM BYRNE It was something that was very minor. She worked out and thought she was ready to go. She got to the...
CHARLES WELLS I expect the closest she got was something like Venice.
VALERIE STEELE There was just something about me she did not like.
ANDY GRIFFITH Myra wasn't simple or complicated. She was different. She was not perfect, not even close but her fl...
PARUL WADHWA After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [e...
JANIS JOPLIN Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her fat...
AL MICHAELS Looked like the lady that was helping them was a, maybe a nurse or something 'cause she kind of knew...
ANDY AKAMINE It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-e...
ELLEN MUTH It sounded so rewarding. Whether it was the people she met, or the people she helped, it was college...
MICHELLE NORBERG the key, she was central to the grand jury investigation. The information she had -- it might have b...
JULIE MYERS She was beaten repeatedly. She was bound like an animal.
AMA DWIMOH she was, whichever city or state, whatever mood she was in, there was nothing like a book store to f...
LAUREN GILLEY When we saw her [Haase] we thought she was attacked outside or something. Everything happened really...
EMILY BODART But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER I was build with bassically upon on a code... lie... what's a lie and so on and so on!?

-...
DEYTH BANGER The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi...
LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the...
LAO SHE She made it like a joke. She made it sound like it was really nothing and tomorrow it was going to p...
SOPHIA LOREN Tee knew she was staring, but she just couldn’t seem to stop herself. Why couldn’t she stop hers...
ALLY FLEMING Vexis stopped crying. She now looked more annoyed than anything. She feigned like she was trying to ...
C.M. HAYDEN She was a businesswoman, and she was doing something that was not in sync with the times. She felt s...
RICHARD MILLER I asked my mother, 'Who are those people?' She said she didn't know. She was happy because the husba...
ELIZABETH NSELE Once Doc got an idea in her head that she was going to do something, you didn't stop her. She had th...
ED HARRIS I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things tha...
CARRIE RYAN I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to...
LAURA JOPLIN I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin...
PHIL ANSELMO He was smiling at her like she was something special. Did I agree with this smile? Maybe.
AISHABELLA SHEIKH It was almost like she was reading from a list.
BERNARD ETZINGER She was stubborn.
She was evolving.
She needed SOLITUDE like normal people needed exerci...
JAKE VANDER-ARK She was hilarious. She was probably like the life of our wing.
JENNIFER HOWARD jan was an excellent fuck...she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killi...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI So one time I said to her that she should stop reading it, because it was just depressing, so she wa...
M.T. ANDERSON She hoped that they would someday find a cure for cancer. She never wanted her kids, or anyone, to g...
JIM HOUDEK Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat...
COLIN QUINN I kept wondering then — I'm still wondering now — if there was a time when she realizes that som...
NINA LACOUR Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something
clever, lik...
RACHEL CAINE It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong cloth...
KAMI GARCIA Iron or glass? they'd ask.
She was neither.
She was steel.
JAY KRISTOFF Everything she did, she made it seem like it was the first time.
HELEN SONNER She had the swagger of a girl. She blushed like a boy. She had a girl’s toughness. She has a boy�...
ALI SMITH She has always been my role model in gymnastics, and every time at practice when she was doing some ...
HANNAH NOEL She couldn't walk, talk or chew. It was like taking care of a baby.
CASEY LOOZE Her close friends have gathered.
Lord, ain't it a shame
Grieving together
Sharing the...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned ...
RALPH FIENNES Somehow, when she was 13, I convinced her parents to let us take her on the road trips. All the rest...
DICK CATRI One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was s...
BRYAN WHITE It looked like she was being stabbed.
GABE TREVINO It looks like she was sexually groped.
KAREN CARLSON I didn't know where she had gone or if she was safe. I was a wreck. Now I feel like I can live again...
JEAN MCDONALD She's like a mother to me. She treats me like a daughter. She was sweet, sweet. Lord, she was a swee...
DELL WATT It wasn't a good fake smile. You could always tell when she was faking, because she didn't look frie...
RICK YANCEY When she got onstage she was just a different kid. She was so confident and she looked so happy, and...
TINA KNOWLES She was vibrant. She was stylish. She was tough. She was caring, and she will be sorely missed.
PAUL NEWMAN If there was something new, she wanted to experience it.
CANDIE MCALPINE It was her smile. It was the teacher she was, but also the person she was.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS She was fury, she was wrath, she was vengeance.
SARAH J. MAAS She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.
JERRY SPINELLI The Guess girl always combines sensuality with class. She's sexy and voluptuous, but not in a vu...
PAUL MARCIANO She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the b...
BETTY SMITH If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that sh...
JODI PICOULT She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that rig...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

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I'm one of those regular weird people.
JANIS JOPLIN On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLIN Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
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JANIS JOPLIN Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessa...
JANIS JOPLIN I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur peop...
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JANIS JOPLIN Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got.
JANIS JOPLIN Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
JANIS JOPLIN Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
JANIS JOPLIN Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can...
JANIS JOPLIN Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with idea...
JANIS JOPLIN You got to get it while you can. . .
JANIS JOPLIN As a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens, man. It's all the same f...
JANIS JOPLIN I'd trade all my tommorows for a single yesterday
JANIS JOPLIN Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLIN It's hard to be free but when it works, it' s worth it!
JANIS JOPLIN One of my talking points will be the accident of geography.
JANIS JOPLIN Which showed that my interest in rock was not based in a vast knowledge of their work. It was about ...
JANIS JOPLIN Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLIN Freedom's just another word for nothin left to loose. Nothin, don't mean nothin honey if it ain't fr...
JANIS JOPLIN because they're not what you call in the groove.
JANIS JOPLIN Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
JANIS JOPLIN Buried Alive in the Blues.
JANIS JOPLIN Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
JANIS JOPLIN Don't ever compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
JANIS JOPLIN You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLIN You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people do...
JANIS JOPLIN What's happening never happens there
JANIS JOPLIN absolute poison.
JANIS JOPLIN Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLIN It's gonna be a long hard drag, but we'll make it
JANIS JOPLIN On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone
JANIS JOPLIN If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the ti...
JANIS JOPLIN nonsense environment.
JANIS JOPLIN I'm one of those regular weird people.
JANIS JOPLIN ...to be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's w...
JANIS JOPLIN Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageou...
JANIS JOPLIN As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.
JANIS JOPLIN I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
JANIS JOPLIN After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [e...
JANIS JOPLIN All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there ...
JANIS JOPLIN Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at "hateful ragtime" no l...
SCOTT JOPLIN Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.
SCOTT JOPLIN When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.
SCOTT JOPLIN She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she ha...
LAURA JOPLIN I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to...
LAURA JOPLIN Anglo-Saxon America dealt with the emotional aspects of life by hiding them, ignoring them, or defin...
LAURA JOPLIN The younger Janis was a painter, a drawer. She was a very serious art student for a number of years....
LAURA JOPLIN [One suspects there's a little projection going on in that passage, for the author does come across ...
LAURA JOPLIN It was especially important that someone who has been subjected to such an incredible amount of inte...
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LAURA JOPLIN We need a more productive inside game and to get more shots out of our post players. We have to find...
STAN JOPLIN Were they Socialists?
SCOTT JOPLIN Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
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JANIS KARPINSKI I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.
JANIS KARPINSKI I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I s...
JANIS IAN So remember those who win the game
Lose the love they sought to gain
In debitures of quali...
JANIS IAN Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that h...
JANIS KARPINSKI The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up...
JANIS KARPINSKI The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire ba...
JANIS KARPINSKI The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may...
JANIS IAN It's all about incentives. It's a legislative thing because the legislators determine how much incen...
JANIS BURKLUND Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
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JANIS IAN After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, wha...
JANIS KARPINSKI Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained ...
JANIS IAN I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dang...
JANIS KARPINSKI If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Ab...
JANIS KARPINSKI In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely;...
JANIS KARPINSKI The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value w...
JANIS KARPINSKI A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.
JANIS IAN Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide...
JANIS KARPINSKI The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got...
JANIS KARPINSKI That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility ...
JANIS KARPINSKI Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to st...
JANIS KARPINSKI [While accepting her] share of the responsibility ... were not the work of a few wayward soldiers an...
JANIS KARPINSKI They can do whatever they want. They can make it appear anything they want, ... I will not be silenc...
JANIS KARPINSKI How could (the military) hold me accountable when I had no direct access? ... How come they didn't h...
JANIS KARPINSKI Thankfully we don't have any report but that might be as simple as soldiers being told what they can...
JANIS KARPINSKI When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much m...
JANIS IAN Fear breeds fear.
BYRON JANIS I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having...
JANIS IAN I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was goi...
JANIS IAN Iraq was a huge country, and when you have people largely saying now, 'He may have been a dictator, ...
JANIS KARPINSKI You take a request down - literally, you take a request to the Finance Office. If the Pay Officer re...
JANIS KARPINSKI There was no coordination with me or Colonel Pappas. There was no discussion about chain of command.
JANIS KARPINSKI The most pronounced difference was when Miller came to visit. He came right after Rumsfeld's visit ....
JANIS KARPINSKI We're never going to know the truth until they do an independent commission or look into this indepe...
JANIS KARPINSKI [The first time Karpinski got any clarification about the photographs was January 23, 2004. The crim...
JANIS KARPINSKI [Karpinski tried to get information, but] nobody knew anything, nobody - at least, that's what they ...
JANIS KARPINSKI was told by Colonel Warren, the JAG officer for General Sanchez, that they weren't assigned to me, t...
JANIS KARPINSKI We haven't dealt very effectively with those photographs or what they indicated,
JANIS KARPINSKI I've never spoken to any of them,
JANIS KARPINSKI living conditions now are better in prison than at home. At one point we were concerned that they wo...
JANIS KARPINSKI Look how they've tormented me, what they've taken away from me,
JANIS KARPINSKI We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit tha...
JANIS KARPINSKI ..."we didn't make it around the world, but we were able to wrap the world around us.
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JANIS SPINDEL It's not just about 'here's a phone number, get married.' I facilitate the date, I'm a relationship ...
JANIS SPINDEL dooms celebrity marriages before they can really start.
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JANIS SPINDEL The decline in the portfolio reflects diminished investment opportunities amidst continued strong co...
JANIS SMITH The portfolio results for January really just reflect diminished investment opportunities, along wit...
JANIS SMITH We're hoping that motivation will carry over into a regular school. Our goal is to help these studen...
JANIS SLATTERY This stinks. Why is my mom is making me come to school on Saturday?
JANIS SLATTERY We have kids who are disgruntled at school. At Flight School, these kids are really digging learning...
JANIS SLATTERY For his very first slalom, he improved his time by 13 seconds, and that's pretty good. It was a diff...
JANIS SERRANO Definitely, snowboarding has taken some skiers. We used to have 30 or 40 skiers, but we've just watc...
JANIS SERRANO We're in a rebuilding process, we're doing fine for where we're at. We're just trying to improve on ...
JANIS SERRANO Haley is experienced and talented. You would never guess that she's just a third-year skier. She sta...
JANIS SERRANO She had a really good race. This was her second top-10 finish, so it looks like she's on her way to ...
JANIS SERRANO Each dollar a visitor spends doubles in value as it spreads through the community. The attractions a...
JANIS SCHMEES Far beyond the economic impact is being able to show off our city to political leaders. It's a coup ...
JANIS SCHMEES They've been looking for an opportunity to come back, but we haven't had the Convention Center avail...
JANIS SCHMEES At the Harvard meet, I beat the one-meter champion my freshman year. It's really hard to believe.
JANIS SCANLON As soon as Julie stepped in, I knew that I would have to step up my diving. Julie works really well ...
JANIS SCANLON I wasn't even expecting it. It was one of the best meets of the season so far. Making NCAA Zones def...
JANIS SCANLON It happened on my very first dive at the meet. With the gainer two-and-a-half, you're supposed to ju...
JANIS SCANLON It's hard to play competitively in Canada and still be a full-time student, so when I heard from IU,...
JANIS PARDY It has allowed me to experiment with different styles of play to come up with the most successful on...
JANIS PARDY We have great team chemistry and I think a lot of our success can be attributed to how well we all g...
JANIS PARDY We have all played together for so long. We have a lot of chemistry. We know how each other plays an...
JANIS PARDY We're a basic, general dental office that provides all phases of dentistry with the exception of ort...
JANIS MORIARTY We've received lots of new patients since we moved. There's great visibility here that we didn't hav...
JANIS MORIARTY In the past, people only went to the dentist when they had a problem, which was a constant horror sh...
JANIS MORIARTY Certainly I would be concerned but I would be equally concerned... that the pictures had not been re...
JANIS KARPINSKI The most pronounced difference was when Miller came to visit. He came right after Rumsfeld's visit ....
JANIS KARPINSKI It's easy in a big district to rarely see or know one another. This event brings the three buildings...
JANIS HYLAND He had an effective removal order against him, he had a legal deportation order against him, there w...
JANIS FERGUSSON We were of the opinion that he was a danger to the public and that he should not be allowed to remai...
JANIS FERGUSSON They will be contacted. Their case will be dealt with.
JANIS FERGUSSON You couldn't really see the drivers. Here, you can see them. They're right there (close to the fence...
JANIS FARRELL We got the car as soon as we saw it.
JANIS FARRELL We know T-shirts and hat sales aren't going to generate enough money to bring filming of 'Dallas' to...
JANIS BURKLUND The competition is getting more aggressive. If we don't do something, we're going to get left in the...
JANIS BURKLUND Both Florida and Texas are going to have to increase the incentives to get more movies. Right now, L...
JANIS BURKLUND Florida's nice, but let's get real. The show was called 'Dallas,' right? It took place in Dallas, ri...
JANIS BURKLUND We're just getting it started, and I don't know how successful it will be. But we're going to have t...
JANIS BURKLUND It's not that they won't shoot here at all. They just might not shoot much here, and that would be h...
JANIS BURKLUND This particular movie there's more at stake then just money. Of course, there's the money to our eco...
JANIS BURKLUND I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's prob...
JANIS IAN Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.
JANIS IAN I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
JANIS IAN At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that ju...
JANIS IAN Research about the prevention of obesity should consider infancy, as well as childhood.
DR JANIS BAIRD What is needed are in-depth studies to try to understand better the pattern of growth in infancy and...
DR JANIS BAIRD There were very consistent findings in all of the studies we looked at.
DR JANIS BAIRD The entrance into the family of an outside professional with legal authority is always a crisis-ridd...
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